SENATE, No. 3879

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

219th LEGISLATURE

 

INTRODUCED JUNE 3, 2021

 


 

Sponsored by:

Senator  JAMES W. HOLZAPFEL

District 10 (Ocean)

Senator  MICHAEL L. TESTA, JR.

District 1 (Atlantic, Cape May and Cumberland)

 

Co-Sponsored by:

Senators Thompson, Corrado, Doherty, Singer, Bateman, Oroho, O'Scanlon, Pennacchio and A.M.Bucco

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Prohibits requiring students to wear face masks in schools and on school buses.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As introduced.

  


An Act concerning face mask usage in schools and supplementing chapter 40 of Title 18A of the New Jersey Statutes. 

 

     Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

 

     1.    a.  A student attending a public or nonpublic elementary or secondary school shall not be required to wear a face mask while in any indoor or outdoor area of any building of, or while on the grounds of, the public or nonpublic elementary or secondary school which the student is attending.  A student attending a public or nonpublic elementary or secondary school shall also not be required to wear a face mask while present on a school bus as defined in R.S.39:1-1. 

     b.    Nothing in subsection a. of this section shall be construed to prohibit any student attending a public or nonpublic elementary or secondary school from voluntarily wearing a face mask while in any indoor or outdoor area of any building of, or while on the grounds of, the public or nonpublic elementary or secondary school which the student is attending or while present on a school bus as defined in R.S.39:1-1. 

 

     2.    This act shall take effect immediately.

 

 

STATEMENT

 

     This bill provides that a student attending a public or nonpublic elementary or secondary school would not be required to wear a face mask while in any indoor or outdoor area of any building of, or while on the grounds of, the school which the student is attending.  A student would also not be required to wear a face mask while present on a school bus.

     The bill would not prohibit a student from voluntarily wearing a face mask while in any indoor or outdoor area of any building of, or while on the grounds of, the school which the student is attending or while the student is present on a school bus.